THE U. Š. 5. Swatara, once well known on the China station, has been ordered out of commission.
We learn that Capt. C.. J. Olifent has been appointed to the command of Messrs. Apcar's Hongkong-Calcutta linar Japan, víti Capt. T. 5. Gandar, who died recently in Calcutta.
ABOUT 4 o'clock on the 26th. February a fire
eccurred at Hangchow and burned till 8 o'clock before the city fire brigade could effectually subdue it. Over two hundred houses were destroyed..
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HOLDERS of "Charbonnage shares in this colony will be glad to hear that the coal fields of Tonkin are turning out so well that it is thought that M. Ferry may be restored to popular favor upon that issue alone."
CAPT. Joseph Hogg who was fined $100 at the Police Court on the 7th inst. for over-loading the British steamer Nanzing has, we hear, with drawn the notice of appeal which he gave at the time the Mexicans were passed over.
MR. Hilller, H.M.'s Consul-General in Kores,
was amongst the homeward bound passenger
on board the German mall steamer which
arrived here on the 11th Inst. from the North. Mr. James Scotils now British Chargé d'Affaires In the peninsular Kingdom; -
THE Chungking Customs was formally opened on the Isi instant, by the Commissioner of
Customs, the British Consul, and the Taotsi. The Customs offices are at present in the hourG of the Chinese Sugar Guild, and they will remain in that building until the Custom House Is built,
THE report of an epidemic of small-pex at Macao is, as far as we can gather at present, based only upon the fact that few children have died of that disease, while some scores of people of the lower classes hare' succumbed to influenss, which threatens to assume a serious aspect ta the Holy City.
ASEAMANof the Norwegian steamer Nordex, now lying at East Point, was drowned when going off to his ship last night (March 10th).. The Agents, the Mitsui Bushan Kalshs, informed us to-day that the man, as far as is known at present, was not murdered, but a magisterial inquiry into the circumstances connected with his death will be held to-morrow.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1891.
NAVIGATORS who have been all over the globe say that the China Sex and the Bay of Fundy are the two roughest seas in the world.
A NEWCHWANG corespondent, writing on the 14th ito, says that the ice on the river is a foot thicker than last year; it varies from 20 to 39 inches In depth, taken in several soundings | between the Chinese Government whart and the Creek which now bounds the British Settlement, We hear that the epidemic at Canton is increas.
ing in virulence and that it prevails in every street of the city. It is, in fact, a plague caused by the people having used putrid well-water for several weeks past, the water supply of the city having run very short owing to the long-continued drought. The authorities, it is said, have decided to give effect to the projected water-works scheme forthwith, in the hope of avoiding like disasters in the future...... SOME men are actors born, and others are only masqueraders, and to those coming under the latter category we must add the name of Chan Chol, who was detected whilst trying to assume the role of an Excise officer, in Jervals Street, last night. (March 11th). He succeeded in thirty, cents from a loon whom he fancied was wheedling a box, and bullion to the amount of not so sharp as himself, but his fancy was at fault for once, and Chan was promptly laid by the heels, and when interrogated by Mr. Wise this morning had the good sense to plead guilty and was sent into retirement for the term of three
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The Nagasaki Express thus:-" The City of Pekine, on her fast trip from Hongkong to Yokohama, had on board two magnificent horses as a present from Queen Victoria to the Emperor of Japan. One was an Australian animal and the other English." Now we happen to have seen these "magnificent" borses, and have a pretty shrewd notion as to their actual value, and it is no exaggeration to say that we have seen far better horses shot for their Eldes in Australia. A gift from the Queen of Great Britain to the Emperor of Japan! Ye gode but then Victoria by the grace etc., has always been noted for her lavishness in the 'camshaw line, so komment " in this case in perbapa, auperfluous.
cane.
MR. Hugh Clifford, acting British Resident at Pabang, bas intimated to a Singapore advocate, that counsel are not permitted to practice in the courts of that State.
The Nagaski Rising Sun of the 4th inst, says that Captain Hook of the Russian schooner Nadaschda, which has been acting as tender to the Russian whalingsteamer Gennady Nevilskoy, has little hope of the latter vessel's safety. The Gennady left Tsigotsan-dogo. In northern Koren, for a port so miles cast of Vindivostock on the Ith of January with only two days""coal on board, and has not since been heard of, though Captain Hook sailed all round the Korean coast, looking for her. She had a ship's company of 14, ail Russians,
The Canadian Pacific Company's chartered steamur Abyssinia, Capt. Williamson, will go Into Dock for a general overhaul in the course of a day or two, prior to her retam home at the aptation of her charter. The Captain, Mr. Spooner, chief officer, the chief engineer and a few deck "hands" are the only people on board at present, and she will ship a new crew prior to smiling for Liverpool at the end of this month. The same Company's chartered steamer Parthia owing to her suitability for the Vancouver run, is, we hear, going to be bought by the charterers while the old Cunarder Batavia will soon follow the Abyssinia on the homeward route. Another of the, C. P. chartered boats, the Mongkut, which has been running between Vancouver and Portland, Oregon, during the past summer and autumn is now on her way back to China. She will probably, it is said, resume duty In the service of her owners, the Scottish Oriental Company, on the Hongkong-Bangkok toute.
THE CZAREWITCH has made up his mind not to go to Shanghal, so that all the extensive and expensive preparations made for his reception there have been made in vain, Admiral Nazimoff Shanghai that, "owing to shortness of time his wired from Batavia to the Russian Consul in Imperial Pighness will pass from Saddle Islands straight to Hankow without touching Shanghai," The Straits Timer of the 4th inst. has the following z Raubs-A call of two-pence per share, payable on the 21st of the present month, Australien Syndicate. The call is made on the la made to-day by the Directors of the Rasb advice of Mr. Hume Black, cabled to Bilsbane, and the money (say £5,500) is intended solely for the purchase of new machinery. We under. stand that Mr. Hune Black believes that the the working expenses, and that in anticipation output of gold is likely now to be in excess of of that the call is smaller than might be the case otherwise, it being nasumed that the output of the mine will probably contribute to the cost of the machinery needed."
THE Case against Captain Crosby, of the Ameri The Captain was charged :-"That he did, an can ship Imperial, was decided on the 11th inst the 17th day of February, on board the American ship Imperial, then lying in Hong. kong harbour, unlawfully allow James Smith to land in this colony, who being other than Chinese and at the time of his landing was obviously destitute of means of subsistence." Mr. A. Moir, superintendent of the Sailors' Home, said the discharged sailor Smith bad not applied to him for admission. Mr. Bowles, who appeared for the Captain, submitted that the Ordinance did not apply to discharged allors. Mr. Wise, however, ordered that the colony for all costs and charges incurred defendant was able to the Government of this coming colony in consequence of Smit be consoling to Smith, who is at present in the coming a vagrant. This, no doubt, is very House of Detention consequent upon conviction for vagrancy
THE POLICE COURT.
A KOREAN OPIUM SMUGGLER AT ➡hose views the Chinese, can always clalm to appeal to the Consul General, and whose 'office will consequently carry, no" weight in their estimation.
At the Magistracy on the 14th inst," before Mfr." A. G. Wise, Pah Cheong Tung, a native of Karen, was charged with being in possession of one and a half taels of opium, without having a valid certificate, on the 13th inst. The defendant being unable to speak the Cantonese dialect, Inspector Quincey was sworn to interpret in Mandarin.
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Mahomed Bert, Excise Officer No. 35. Malay, stated that on the 13th Instant at 3-30 p.m. he was at the Canton what and saw defendant land from the steamer Hankou He saw that his leggings were bulky, caught him, and took from him the opium in Court. It was in his leggings.
Defendant admitted being in possession of the oplum, but said he was utterly ignorant of the law, and that the oplum was carried by him in his wallet at the waist, and was used for medi- cinal purposes only. It was not concealed - in his leggings.
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alternative of 16 days' imprisonment with hard His Worship fined the defendant $5..with the
labour.
The fine was paid,
A representative of this paper interviewed the defendant at the conclusion of the hearing in his lodgings at No. 69 Prays Central, and ascertained that he, together here recently from the Land of Morning with two other Korean merchants, came Calm is Shanghai on business... Like most of their race they never smoke onium and have no desire to do so, but carried a very small amount of the drug as medicine which is often used by Koreans in certain cases of disease of the he was assaulted by the Excise Officer, and stomach or bowels. The defendant alleges that considers that it was very unfair to take not only criminal offence. He had no idea that he was his medicine from him, but to convict him of a breaking the laws, and was surprised that treatment is a British colony that was supposed perfect stranger should meet with such rough to be a free port. He had heard the English were a great people and was, therefore, greatly astonished at the rough treatment he received a cold cell for eighteen hours for breaking a law He thought it was most unfair to lock him up in he knew nothing of, and then officially, fiue him five dollars.
New South Wales is gradually acquiring a cranky old derelict H.M.S. Swinger, which has formidable Beet. Their latest purchase is that heen taken over for the use of the Sydney naval forces. We hope the use (7) of that dangerous shores of the beautiful harbour. If the old war vessel will be exclusively confined to the Swinger-she was old when on the China station a generation ago—once gets outside the Heads in a heavy sea, there will be weeping, and walling and smashing of teeth. If the Consul office we can fix him up a feet at, amall cost for New South Wales will come along to this
that will keep both Russia and Germany at deliance. The Chop-cheung and Hat-chrong- Chinese Navy and the Terrors of the Canton ching, once the pride and ornament of the River, are still jauntily riding at anchor in Yau-where the wax is raised in considerable quantito interpret for him in a foreign tongue-the
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Moreover, if the Consul General in to be Chief Justice also, and the Consul is to be Assistant Judge also, neither of these officials will be able with propriety, to hear the case and urge the claim of one side, when there is a possibility of the matter resolving itself into a suit against a British subject or of such a suit stising
out of it
The existance of a Ceurt presided over by a Judge who has gone through a regular judicial training, who can be relied upon to administer Justice in accordance with law, has in our opinion a strong tendency to reduce litigation to minimum, because parties are enabled to obtain advice from their own Counsel as to how a claim or defence will result, without bringing the caro into Court; and this is an inestimable advantaga to a commercial community where a very large and varied business in carried on.
We would beg to pulut out that as it was found desirable some twenty-six years ago te proved itself so beneficial to British Interests in establish the Supreme Court, which has since
China, it is obvieos that it is now much more essential, when thosh interests have developed to such a great extent.
ment is economy, we think that it could be If the only object of Her Majesty's Govern effected more advantageously and in ether ways and Consul General, a step which, in our opinion, than by amalgamating the offices of Chlef Justice is fraught with danger,
consider
OUR excellent friend the Rev. Sam. Jones got into extremely hot water the other day at Pales- tine, Texas. In the course of a lecture the belligerent evangelist thought fit to animadvert Our old chum, Citizen George Francis Train pretty severe terms on the official and private Informs us that he is writing a book, detailing all the marvels he saw-and some he didn't see but Word met Samuel at the railway station next character of Mr. Ward, the mayor of the town. jotted down all the same during that wonderful globe-trotting scurry of bis: from the Pacific morning and attacked him vigorously with a ma-til Bay, with the well-known banner of the And then there were, ructions. Coast to nowhere in particular and back again. Rev. Sam. grappled with the mayor, took the
"The Hongkong Telegraph dating proudly in the breeze and they are open to any reasonable The volume will be published shortly, and the Citizen promises to send us a copy.
When separated by the anlookers, bath com-
friends should not lose sight of THE following gentlemen form the Shanghai batants were bleeding profusely. The rvan Municipal Council for the ensuing year: gelist got on board the train and cleared out, Chairman-Mr. John Macgregor. Vice-Chairman whilst the luckless mayor was placed under -Mr.J. G.Furdon. Finance Committee-Messrs. arrest for aggravated assault and carrying a W. D. Little, J. Graham, and D. M. Moses. pistol. Works Committee-Messrs John Macgregor, H. H. Joseph, and E., A. Probat. Watch and Defence Committee-Messrs. J. G. Purdan, D. C. Jansen, and W. McDonald.
cane from him, and waled him unmerciful. I offer. This 's an opportunity our Australian could raise the wax in the Shanghal Public taken as evidence that the Korean knew he was there is every intention of carrying it into effect;
THEY appear to have the same childish scare of rabies in dogs in the Siraits Settlements that has madethe Australasian Colonies the ridicule of the world for years past. The magistrate of Matang, Perak, hai lately ordered the confinement of all dogs in the district for a period of thren months, and
any person refusing to hand over his bow. wow is threatened with a fine of $100 or alx months' imprisonment. In other districts all dogs are ordered to be summarlly destroyed. What next?
THE tea and slik merchants in Kiukiang, according to a Chinese contemporary, seem to be much discouraged. Formerly at the begin. alog of Chinese spring, men and money were sent to the tea and silk producing districts, whereas this year no one is on the move and every one appears to wait for his neighbour to taice the lead. This is a bad outlook for the special productions that have for generations made China prominent in commercial circles throughout the world.
THE annual ball of the Mih-bo-loongs, firemen and soldiers, was held in Shanghai on Friday the 6th inst, and proved most successful in every respect. There were three hundred and fifty guests present, of whom one third, were ladies, and dancing was kept up with great split until an early hour on Saturday morning, Commenting on the ball, our Shanghai morning contemporary remarks :-The occasion was notable one, as 189: marks twenty-five years since the Mib-ho-loong Hook and Ladder Com. pany came into being. The original roll of the company was bung up as usual in, the ball room; and it was interesting to see that seven of the signers of that roll in fane, 1965, were in the first three names on it Those seven do not the room on Friday, among them the bearers of comprise all the original Mib-ho-loongs who are still in Shanghai and who would still, if required, be as ready as of old to carry out comes your house!" the company's motto: "Say the word, and dows
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Japanese papers which, if accurate, proves how AN extraordinary case is recorded in one of the truly "the mills of the gods, etc., and also how anjustly they sometimes grind. Mr, Kurata Teuji mura, Judge
the Fukuye Court, Goto, was Arrested and brought to Nagasaki a few days ago, under very peculiar circumstances, which are, bilefty, as follows:—Isao Wala. nabe, eldest son of a Shimabara skizoku, was.
clerk in the Mitsui Bussan Kaishi at Nagasaki some ten or twelve years ago, when he emberried about $400 from his employers, for which he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to penal servitude for life. Being sent to work in the Mike coal miner, as a convict, he shortly afterwards, in 1881, made bis escape to Olts, where he assumed the usme of Tejimura and commenced to study law. In 1883 he was appointed Secretary of the Oits Court, and subsequently, passing the required Fukuye Court in 1887, a position he continued to examination, he was appointed Judge of the hold until he was arrested.
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disadvantage: A Hongkong detective was used The Korean gentleman was palpably at
Mandarin dialect-a Malay of the informer class was the principal, indeed the only witness, and bis bare statement "that the drug was concealed in the man's leggings, which were bulky" was breaking the laws of the Colony. In a perfectly possession of enough oplats to swear hy frank manner the defendant admitted being in which was certainly not sufficient to make his leggings bulge out." We refrain from further comment on the case, as it must be as transparent as daylight that this foreign mer chant was no opium smuggler, and it therefore needs no special pleadings in the interests of common Justice. Mr. Wise merely administered the letser of the law; the hopeless victim admitted having the oplem cartificate, and that was enough. He was technically guilty and was fined. Mr. Quincey doubtless Interpreted correctly and that the Korean also stated the truth there cannot be any shadow of doubt whatever. The law is no respecter of persons, and it has to look carefully after such dangerous criminais as Korean opium smugglers. That is what Pak Cheung Tung hat firmly implanted in his mind, and he will crea part af Hongkong to his countrymen when he fully explain bis experiences in the free British gets back home.
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THE PROPOSED JUDICIAL AND CONSULAR CHANGES AT SHANGHAI
tative meeting of British residents held at the At a largely attended and thoroughly represen Shanghai Club on March Toth Mr. John Macgregor, of Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co. in the chair, it was unanimously decided that proposed changes in the Judicial and Consulat the following petition and protest against the
Minister at Peking, the Secretary of State for services at Shanghai be forwarded to the British Foreign Affairs, and the principal Chambers of Commerce in great Britain, and that summary be sent by wire to the Chlas Associa tion in London. :---
into detalls with which it is not necessary to In view of the foregoing and without entering burden this memorial: We hereby beg respect fully to record aur protest against these proposed Majesty's Government may see fit t changes, and ask you to request that Her its decision in a matter of such great portance to British trade and British Interests in China.
Mr. Macgregor's remarks in support of the - Shanghai, roth March, 1891.
there has been a universal feeling present in protest are worthy of reproduction. He said: the community that the changes walch wars rumoured at about to take place deserve some notice and protest. A few members of the com Club, and a small committee, if I may call them multe met Informally and incidentally at the sq, were asked to undertake the duty of drawing
remonstrance is, I believe, universal. The news up this petition which is lo your hands. The feeling which is expressed in the petition and came upon the community as an entire surprise, and people were loath to believe that a step so retrograde in character and with possibilities of mischief so inherent, should become more than a rumour. We are well assured, however, that and late in the day as it may be, it becomes us which we believe to be most inimical not only to to record out emphatic protest against a change the interests of persons actually resident here but also to the progressive development of British relations with China (applause). If the separate and independent establishment of supreme judicial and consular functions were deemed necessary and proper In 1865, it is surely much more so now, when there is a largely increased population here and a trade in this |post alone which, according to Inte Customs returns, represents & gross annual value of 150 millions of taels, or 37 millions sterling, while shipping enters this port to the extent of 31 millions of tens annually, of which more than 21 million tons are under the British flag. (applause). I say that in view of the varying interests concerned and which arise out of the social and business life inseparable from the conduct of such a trade, any retrograde step (applause). I should also allude to the question such as is, contemplated le most injurious.
of our municipal Hfe and institutions, in connec tion with which questions of delicacy often arise calling for the exercise of careful handling friction is to be avoided, and in which the Intervention of H.B.M.'s Consal-General is con stantly avalled of. It may be said that for tliese diplomatic. functions we kayo a Minister at Peking; but, good. Heavens, what is likely to absence of any response from that quarter to be the result: (laughter and applause). The representations from Shanghal is already toe well known. As stated in the petition, we want
THE correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury writes from Kinhwa on February rathWe have been invaded by about two thousand refugees from the Payang Lake region in Kiangs!: famine are said to be the cause of emigration, The cry is "all they come." Floods and Local officials are taxing the people for the relief of these unwelcome guests.-Szechuen is not the Cheklang has two districts, Kinhwa and Huchow, only province in China that produces insect-wax.
ties. It sells for ninety cents a catty in Kishwa The seed insects come from Huchow, and cease to yield wax after the third year. You Garden by buying ten cents worth of the eggs and putting them on ta a box, privet or holly ounces of insect wax, 8 ounces of resin, 16 ounces bush. The privat is its natural babit. Four of Chinese pork lard, well melted together, and strained, is a cheap and good remedy for bad legs. It beats Holloway's dintment. I have heard of an immense deposit of sulphur in a place ninety // from Kinhwa, called Sienping. Natives are not allowed to use it for fear they should make gunpowder and blow up the Empire. MANY of our readers will learn with. Interest of the novel experiment which was tried with marked success in floating the stranded Japanese mail steamer Tokio Maru, and of which the Kobe Herald gives the following particulars: Laterally, the ship lay, after stranding, at as angla with the shore about 40 or 50 degrees, her forward part being fast on sand and rock and her stern in comparatively deep water. It was felt that it was necessary to sweep her bead with the shore. To do this an enormous force sound so as to bring her whole length parrellel or tension was required. To obtain this tension steel hawsers were requisitioned from the ships of the Fleet, and after being made fast to inrge anchors which were sunke some distance out in the sea-bed, they were connected by means of purchase tackles with the huge bitts or bollards that had been let down through the fell with the even motion of the waves around the decks of the vessel. Then as the ship rose and
greater part of her length, these steel kawaers tightened, dragging her bow, with every repeti- tion of the operation at each successive tide, slowly but surely to the vessel's native element,
in on the spot, effufluential and independent would not hold but ballast in large quantities
special training and experience has a knowledge At first the strain was so great that the anchors
position, as H.B.M. Consul-General, who
workers saw that success was to be the reward
Minister is 1,000 miles away from us, and for being dumped down upon them, soon the anxious
of Chinese diplomacy (Hear, hear). The of their patient and skillful efforts. The extent
three months of the year he is practically isolated of the damage sustained by the vessel fx not yet
by ice. (A laugh). If, as is stated in the known, but from the fact that the angles and
petition, economy is the object that is aimed at, plates of the water-ballast tanks are injured, it may be inferred that several frames, and much
1 conceive that the object might be attained of the bottom plating will aced renewal.
without infileting upon në the injury which is soon. Her Majesty's Eavoy Extraordinary ahe to be done. Many schemes have been talked of THE price of rice in Hongkong and the neigh. Minister Plenipotentiary and Chief Superin-and, many suggestions have been made. I have THE Shingo says "it is rumoured in Peking
bouring Chinese provinces, Kwangtung and
tendent of British Trade in China. Bradyk
besid one, , er two valuable, suggestions—one m that, since the death of the Seventh Prince, the
Fuhkien, is steadily advancing: "firsts"! are arduous duties of State have devolved upon the
now fetching $2.35 to $1.38 per plcul, while
The Petition and protest of the undersigned-Particularly valuable suggestioner series of them how the Independence of the judicial and able and talented ministers of the Throne, but
"seconds" and "commons" are standing at at Shanghai, bave the heaper to address yop on out to way way Impairing their efficiency, while We the undersigned, British subjects resident consular functions could be maintained, witho there is wanting a virtungs Prince at their head.
$2.17 and $3.08 per picul, respectively. Msay the subject of changes about to be made in the arriving at same economy. It is not, however, There is a report that Prince Kung was invited
merchants at Canton are parting with the system of Her Majesty's Judicial Establishment to take the management of State affairs and
staple of life" very charlly, for they are con- and Consular Service in China alamenti Contoive, the business, of this meeting to that he declined on the ground of age. Being
fident that owing to the long continued drought
suggest to the British Government or the over sixty years old, his energy is not what li
Wafindit is stated la newspapers published here Treasury any detalls, I have no doubt whatever the commodity in which they dos good thing will that Her Majesty's Government contemplates cons they have received advice upon suck a wat years ago, and he could not conscientiously
ran up fully 20 to 30 per cent in the Chinese amalgamating the Office of Chief Justice of Her subject from these well able to give them advice. undertake such a burden. Moreover he has
fourth and fifth moons of the current year. Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for Chlaa It appears, however, that they have elected to not, as yet, recovered from the effects of asthma: A CORRESPONDENT whose gunyah is at present
There is also another and very potent reason for and Japan with that of Her Majesty's Consul stand by that which they have themselves from which he has been suffering." Consider ing that the late Prince Ch'an had practically Kowloon peninsula, reports a most extraordin.
sequent rush of tribute (grain) laden steamers to Judge of Her Majesty's Court) and we view with by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at Leads, ha pitched an one of the barren slopes of the
the maintenance of high prices for rice, namely, General at Shanghals and creating an Office of evolvedent of their inner consciousness. In that the opening of the Felle River and the con Consul to be amalgamated with that of Assistant remarkable pronouncement made the other day done nothing for months prior to his death, wo are strongly of opinion that the Shimpas'sary incident which he alleges occurted there on
the northern capital. Irrespective of the tribute alarma such changes as thesay any changes, used the following words la connection with the sumours are of the mare's nest order.
the The Fath inst. It is a long story but the glat of it
rice which is going North in large quantities, which may hamper the indidential and Indeped abject of economy **4 Dowager-Empress is still the Autocrat of Alles in the following condensed sentences, but
merchants in Tientals have sent dows very deat position which Her Majesty's Consul Important tout the currency in anfe and I look upon 25 THÓTE whether it was a circus that appeared unan.
large orders for grain (chiefly for "commans") to General has hitherto held in advocating, and sound position than gain for the Exchequer nounced is Kowloon, or that the noodles con
the Yangiare grain ports-Wahuand Chinklang-protecting our rights by the means of representa certain number of hundreds of thousands of carmed only desired to make guys of themselves
thus causing the rates to stiffen to such an extext tions to the Chinese Authorites, mopoanda" say, let them apply the same for the delectation of the onlookers is at
that the local Cantoness merchants' limits explained, Here, however is the comma
have been exceeded. Moreover, owing to
Our position here is an exceptional one. We principle to the development of trade, in aication:-"Whips" of fun here yesterday,
the great demand for suitable steamen under the Land Regulations for the Foreign befeated in infinitesimal. I. bollers" it have local Municipal Government constituted Chips (applause). The saving which may When taking quiet sizoll was suddenly confronted
for the northern trade the rate of freight Settlements North of the Yang-kingpang, while could by what at first sight appeared to be a party of the drug from the Holy City into this file of has gone disgalsed Red-Indians on the war path. Soos Fragrant Streams. That there is a good deal of the past work, and this fact partly accounts held under the Chinese Government, and our hold, and I am sure this meeting will agree with
ld be, effected in other ways, than that. here cansiderably during we live and have our warehouses upon land which is proposed, but, saving or not, I ascertained, however, that an not one of the truth in the last allegation there can be no doubt for the import of Yangtze grain falling off at ships and merchandise in transitare abject, that iritish trade, with Chins, Is of much party could sit tight" for two consecutive after the revelations at the Police Cout this morn Canton, with a corresponding fillip to the values to Customs regulations made by the moments, that first surraise was runcons. ing(1gth ink.), where Mr. Dennys appeared on be of what has been sptly termed "Chinese brend Government, and which it claims to be store fort to and reading inis protest I ans bage, greater fimportance than the paltry saving that is Meeting published they would undoubtedly composed of all soits and conditi, was tal of the Opfam Farmer zis pronécsis a Colentíal |"stuff" 'Daring the past month upwards ́of ¦ able by its Officials solały, while we RIG GÖYÜYKD
Closer inspection proved that the
be affected (Hear hear), fa (muing genus Fas quar, and that their mounts werealy, retaller ever since the middle of last year. at Caston, chiefly on Government account, and
of the who has been doing a rattling business as a 300,000 plculs of rice have been imported by British Law, Harbaghi adelene varer The you are all at oxe with and in saying that chosen from the 'buses which daily ply up and The deladant was pounced upon at No. 5 V
In consequence of this anomalous state of we aim at no dikrespect and no discourtesy to down the streets of Hongkong, and that the Yan Lans yesterday by Taspecter Quincey and the Chinese sice merchants of Wuhu, Celakisay, the Chisels Authorities, frequently scise and to designate and Consul General at Shanghai To
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some ago,000 pleats Foochow. Altogether affairs questions betworm British subjects and Mr. Justice Hannes, who is the Chief Justice object of their visit to these usually undisturbed Sergeant Hadden, who arrested him, seized regions to engage in a burlesque paper taels of aplum on his premises, and appropriated better than for many years past and their before which, and treaty, we have to bring
Canton, Hongkong and Foochow are doing well many cases it in found that the Chinese Court most of hole known er personal and ed hunt. Lots of foolery before the flag fell, but the his ledgers and day-book. It transpired in prospects of making a fun only commenced when the first ditch had evidence to-day that the prisoner's transice of the year are, in sporting parlance, about entertals our claims, 1940
pile before the close our sults are not vested with suffideat pawn, for
know nothing but what good, and power to whom we can all appreciate as a friend but to be negotiated. Then long-legged then took tions, ran up to 3,000 and odd taels of
Principles anderlying every advantage of the gifts of nature and curled opiam, per month, at $6.40 per tin of to taste,
This 10 to 1 in their favour. Tis an ill wind Under these circumstances, në Her Majesty's
sty's which conceive it to be our duty to face and to question their understandings around their diminutive while the Farmer who contributes about verified in this cases the lower and middle classes emargency, on acconstfits, distance, from With these remark and apologise for baking
that blows nobody good,"
an old maxim Legation is practically Inaccessible in cases of make our pretest notwithstanding individuais. mounts, and with arme tightly wound round $40.000 per month to the revenue of this colony are suffering from want of the hare necessaries Shanghal, the Consul General in our only resort, op your tuiet long, because I believe the their ponics' necks managed to get over, and charges for a similar quantity $10. Thus, it of life and the grain dealers are filing their coffers and hitherto kas by negotiation, obtained for pention and remonstrance embodies everything the shorter,Well, those who did not fall off, will be seen, the Wal Yan Land man (the agent of by reason of the great advance In the price of a British subjects protecties, and recallion of that if practically necessary to be said ei mova voluntarily jumped off, and walked across, Macao opisin boller) has been systematically commodity which, by thesid of their guild system, just claims, which must practically have been "That this meeting adopt the petition and protest and so on to the end, which only a few under-selling the local menopolist to the extent they are able to force up to well-nigh famine abandoned but for the existence of this mode of just read (applause), 09 out of the twenty-one starters ever saw. Many of $3.60 per tin which on 3,009 taels of prices and will probably dose before very long, procedure. fell by the way through accident, and many the drug amounts to the triffing sum of Supplies of rice from Bangkok have fallen off The influence exercisable by the Consul Jocal manator of the Hongkong and Shanghal more intentionally, but when they were ultimately $740 month or $8,540 por sunumg-at the very much since the Chinese New Year, and the General depends in great measure spon his Hank Aadaraly supperiod by Mi; C.J. Hold- The proposal was seconded by Mr. John Walter, gathered in, it was found that no serious damage lowest estimate. Mr. Spooner and the No. a regular liars are going backwards and forwards
| coupled with lang
natural causes. was returned,
News of the death at Calcuits of Captain T. S. Gardner, of Mesura Apear's well-known Indo China liner Fagan, on the 11th ultimo was, we regret to learn, brought here, by the Arrateen THE Community of Hongkong would seem to be Apcar on the evening of the 111k inst. Captain. in high favor with the gods at present, if we Gardner, who had been upwards of 34 years in may count the coming of the many theatrical the Calcutta-China trade, Bad hostsoffriends both companies now threatening us with invasion, in India and throughout the Far East who will An inquest was held this afternoon (14th Inst.) in
as blessings-and no doubt they are, for to face deeply regret to Hear of his death at the compara- Victoria Gaol by Mr. A. G. Wise, Acting Coroner, the weary monotony of a Hongkong summer tively early age of 56. The popular skipper, who upon the body of Ying Yip, a prisoner, who would be enough to drive a mule to drink
without the p
e prospect of any amusement whatever, had made many a crack'un in the Company's sentenced to a week's Imprissament on the 9th Miln and his Shakespearean combination epium trade, had been siling for some time, smart little brigs in the early days of the Inst. for larceny. The jury were:-Meurs. R.
will be along in a week's time, and as they are P. Dipple, H. Hyndman, and B. W. Wolff. Dr.reported to have unlimited talent and a lengthy of his steamer about three or four months ago. and was obliged to relinquish the command Marques said the deceased was admitted to hospital on the ith suffering from diarrhoea repertoirs, no doubt they will be warmly wel. Asthma was the original source of trouble, which and died suddenly yesterday afternoon. Dr.
comed here, but what will make the soul of local was followed by heart and kidney complications Cowie, who made a post mortem examination lordly masherdom thrill and the women turn to and finally an attack of pneumosis, the latter on the body of the deceased, said the intestines
a light pea-green color, is to learn that the lovely ultimately gaining complete master over the were in an ulcerated condition from the effects Brows-Potter is coming to Hongkong and will powerful frame and strong mind of the patient, of which he had died. A verdict of death from bring all her charms and attractions and He was attended by Drs. Joubert and Cromble, "Freach-made dresses" along with her. In- and daring the first week of February was cidentally it may be mentioned that Mr. Kyrla removed from his Calcutta residence to Bellew is ber "feading man" and that they have the European General Hospital, where he a very decent support behind thein. Their gradually sank and died on the afternoon of the repertoirs is varied, and contains La Tosca, 11th ultimo. His funeral, which took place on Camilla, Frou Frou, David Garrick, Romes he afternoon of the 11th ult, at the Circular and Juliet, and many other high class dramas.road Cemetery, was very largely attended by The show a being piloted by Mr. G. Crofton, Europeans and natives. Captain Garduar and will no doubt meet with a full mearure of leaves a widow, who left Calcutta for England success. Some of the critiques that wo have some little time prior to his death-step read, lead one to suppose that to see Mrs. B.-P. | taken upon the advice of her friends, who saw (and you see a lot of her 100) is alone worth s that she was rapidly breaking down under the trip to the moon,
strain of sudety which her husband's condition had caused her for some time past,
days past that the rate- payers' friend, the genial It has been the talk in Chios Town for some Optam Farmer, lost upwards of $30,000 last year, and that the causes thereof were legion: notably, the unsuitability of the Opium Ordin ances to the altered conditions of the trade; the fact of the Enes Imposed on sly dealers and con- rumers having been so lowered as to render the precarious business of informers hardly worth the risk to life with which it is surrounded and thirdly, owing to the success which has attended the enterprise of opium smugglers, whom
China.
A private meeting of shareholders in the Punjom Company was held on the 13th fast to discuss certain matters which the Directors considered it advisable to lay before those interested. We are not acquainted with the details of the Directors' information, nor have weany definite knowledge of what transpired ; the meeting was announced as a private one for reasons that may or may not be fatiliable-which was sufficient for the representatives of the public press If the Directors had wished the proceedings of the have invited the reporters of the three local papers to attend. And yet, to our astonishment, find both in the China kfall and Dally Prezi we what is said to be a summary of the proceedings at this private meeting. Anything more disreputable we have seldom seen in Hongkong Journalism. That the evening rag would descend to the meanest of gutter dodges for a sensational paragraph, we know from a pretty long experi- ence; but we did give dear old Granny the credit of knowing something about Journalis tic etiquette, and of belog, albelt, na dull
ditch water, faltly respectable. As these emasculated reports are calculated to convey a very erroneous impression amongst shareholders who were not present at the meeting, in the Far East and elsewhere, and may even do a great deal of harms, we would suggest to the Directors the advisability of publishing
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before the next mail leaves for home, a full had been done. The man who came in first Eicine Officer have, it is said,“taken great paing | with part cargoes—a "fush-with-the-deck cargo ring "Thigh and ladepan päeva: day" (kéined, Høillday? Wien & Co.), Mr. Howla official statement of the entire proceedings; Such was, of course, as is epstomary In all donkey |'la getting up' the case, which resulted to-day in being aʼrata" exception just now." However," | Chinese Ofici 72 alijs cadena. Manling with ((Messee, kur urabull, Hewis & Co); Mr. RW. statement would at least prevent any miscon races, disqualified, and the prize, a sacking pig. Mr. Wise Imposing a fieprof. #300 with the things don't look bad le' the trade, though the case the Offices of Chief Justice and Mr WV Drummond barrister dalaw, 3
CARDINALISTA Little Editor of the North China Daily News, ception as to the Panjom Company's 'position or (not from Mitchell-Inues ranche thought an iterative of three months' imprisonment with recent great fire at Bangkok, which resulted in Consul General are feaed into con rad of an R Wahawright folicitor, and Mr T. W. prospects, and might prevent panle on the given to another. A doctor was in attendance, hard labour. It is expected that the Ane will be heavy losses to the Chinese, cannot be said to appointment being conferred an Bay CONCESS E
Mr London Stock Exchangs. · As for our editorial: and the damaged were shipped across to Hong: paid by the prisoner's backers, as soon as the hare heen without appreciable afect on the trade member of Har Mesityle Cor colleagues of Granny and the Enoll, they will keng along with the bus horses, when it became foaches Macao. Meanwhile the swell sly; int that part, Hongkong Bangkok freights are now orlean that the Cum Gaerat i get over their fair pas by the nounlop rufficiently dark to enable the party to dodge the dealer has been initiated into the mysteries of a rangia from 13 to 15 cents per pical and ari phel experience above fa
a concluding the Stalinese the Chairman maid lowing and boot-licking;||
police.
veen á larger and more representa-